Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c21.3

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But the inscriptions found in Nepâl by Pandit Bhagwân Lâl offer still earlier instances of the use of this era.‡ The earliest of these records, bearing the name of Ansu Varma, are dated in Samvat 34, 39, and 45. Now Ansu Varma was on the throne when the Chinese prilgrim Hwen Thsang visited Nepâl in A.D. 637, which was in the very middle of his reign, as his earliest inscription above quoted is dated in A.D. 640 (606+34) and his latest in A.D. 651, which was near the close of his reign, as an inscription of his successor, Jishnu Gupta, is dated in S. 48, or A.D. 654. Three inscriptions of Siva Deva are dated respectively in S. 119, 143, 145, and one of Jaya Deva in S. 153, or A.D. 759. Now Jaya Deva's mother is said to have been the grand-daughter of the “Great Aditya Sena, the illustrious lord of Magadha,” of whom I have an inscription dated in S. 55, as I read the two figures. This would place Aditya in A.D. 661, or 64 years prior to his grand-daughter, the wife of Siva Deva.